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federal law signed into law by president clinton in 1996. it says if a person is legally married in a state, the federal government can't recognize those marriages. that's where you talked about federal benefits heterosexual couples get and same sex couples do not. the prop 8 thing is bigger. while potentially it's confined to the state of california only, the question it out there having given the right to gay marriage could the state then take it away through proposition 8 passed by a majority of the vote nurse 2008. having taken that case, the court could get to the bedrock issue. can any state refuse to let same sex couples get married under the federal constitution. it could potentially be narrow or very far. >> pete, as i understand it, let me ask you. this one of these things, maybe the driving one, is defense of marriage act was about paying the estate act. where one of the two people said she didn't have to pay the estate tax because a married couple wouldn't have to. >> reporter: this is a case from new york. a woman named edie win
federal law signed into law by president clinton in 1996. it says if a person is legally married in a state, the federal government can't recognize those marriages. that's where you talked about federal benefits heterosexual couples get and same sex couples do not. the prop 8 thing is bigger. while potentially it's confined to the state of california only, the question it out there having given the right to gay marriage could the state then take it away through proposition 8 passed by a...
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want to ask you, one of the parts of the red line statement by president obama and secretary of state clinton, that if there was movement of any chemical weapons of mass destruction, movement -- now, as i listen to what you're saying, there hasn't been movement. it looks like they're getting ready where they are, but they haven't moved yet, so maybe they haven't violated the red line exactly. >> that's right, larry. they've got everything in place to do that. but what are the possibilities here? u.s. military officials say it would be very difficult to target certain areas. there are possibilities if they're going to load them on the planes. they could use cruise missiles to attack airstrips, for example. they can't blow up the weapons sites themselves, otherwise then the deadly gases could be spread among the public and kill thousands. the only other option according to some people that i've been talking to over the past couple of days is possibly take those cruise missiles and aim them not only at the airport strips, but at regime targets. even perhaps president assad himself. but so far, w
want to ask you, one of the parts of the red line statement by president obama and secretary of state clinton, that if there was movement of any chemical weapons of mass destruction, movement -- now, as i listen to what you're saying, there hasn't been movement. it looks like they're getting ready where they are, but they haven't moved yet, so maybe they haven't violated the red line exactly. >> that's right, larry. they've got everything in place to do that. but what are the...
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clinton had a terrible first two year ps some of them grow out of it like jfk. some like jimmy carter are as miserable as the end as they are in the beginning. >> how do you see obama now? this is a rocky first year in many respects. can he grow out of this? what does he take away? what does he learn from this? five-hour whirlwind. back in 2012, tony blair got the games for london. but he worked the ioc international olympic committee for three full days. obama, five hours, bang, bang, bang. 18 votes out of 93, if i'm not mistaken. that's incredible. >> it's not bad. there's four cities. so 18 is not -- >> it wasn't great. better than iowa, for heaven's sakes. >> people were shocked iowa -- chicago went out in the first round. tokyo wasn't going to get it. they just had an asian city. when we elect these charismatic outsiders, they're going to make mistakes. that's the price we pay in our country for voting for guys like this. now this is a good one to learn from. there's no way obama can mistake this for anything but a big fat public fiasco. makes him look bad,
clinton had a terrible first two year ps some of them grow out of it like jfk. some like jimmy carter are as miserable as the end as they are in the beginning. >> how do you see obama now? this is a rocky first year in many respects. can he grow out of this? what does he take away? what does he learn from this? five-hour whirlwind. back in 2012, tony blair got the games for london. but he worked the ioc international olympic committee for three full days. obama, five hours, bang, bang,...
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there's no more clinton or bush to blame. it's his health care plachblt i was completely astonished by the statement of the post office. i would think as the president of the united states he is essentially head of the post office. he criticized them and said they're the ones who have problems, the private sector u.p.s. and fedex do well. should that mean we only get sick monday through friday on obama-care? >> do we have that post office quote? can i run that again or cooking it up again. keith, was that you butting in. >> you guys are taking one little comment out of context. he's talking about the importance of private and public competition, republicans want when it comes to school choice. they talk about health care, they don't want that. reality, these town hall meetings are not about health care, about stopping president obama. you have sarah palin talking about dealt panels, when this was a voluntary council proposed from a representative from georgia, we're not talking about the actual conversation here. >> let me pl
there's no more clinton or bush to blame. it's his health care plachblt i was completely astonished by the statement of the post office. i would think as the president of the united states he is essentially head of the post office. he criticized them and said they're the ones who have problems, the private sector u.p.s. and fedex do well. should that mean we only get sick monday through friday on obama-care? >> do we have that post office quote? can i run that again or cooking it up...
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but bill clinton raised taxes just like president obama did. >> bill clinton also cut taxes, and bill clinton was a different man after 1994. he was a different man and i want to know whether he'll do this again. >> i want to go to democracy plaza in new york city because brian sullivan is there. he's going to tell us also the results in the senate. over to you, brian. >> yeah, thank you very much, maria. listen, i mean, right now there's certainly going to be talk tomorrow for everything you're hitting on. the unemployment rate is still too high. will we get a deal on the fiscal cliff? i can bring you color from here. not the blue and red on the map, i'm talking about the crowd. when those results you announced at the top of 11:00 came out, an audible cheer, chants of "four more years," people hugging over here, cars honking over here. i can't speak for the rest of the country, maybe with the exception of chicago. there's a lot of jubilation right here in democracy plaza. you can tell this yehere arounds a very pro-obama crowd. i think you bring up a great point. when we wake up tomo
but bill clinton raised taxes just like president obama did. >> bill clinton also cut taxes, and bill clinton was a different man after 1994. he was a different man and i want to know whether he'll do this again. >> i want to go to democracy plaza in new york city because brian sullivan is there. he's going to tell us also the results in the senate. over to you, brian. >> yeah, thank you very much, maria. listen, i mean, right now there's certainly going to be talk tomorrow...
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he said he wouldn't go above clinton but in effect he's going to go above the clinton tax rate level. we'll get keith involved in this in just a minute. is this one of those areas he looks defensive rather than offensive? >> yeah, and this is one of those areas he looks mathematically impaired. $30 billion a year. who believes that? congressional budget office? any outside consulting firms? the cbo refuses to go below $1 trillion not $300 billion and private groups estimated twice that. we're just making numbers up. on the surface, just look at it, we're going to do 50 million people for $30 billion a year? what's that? that doesn't make any mathematical sense whatsoever. maybe these other panelists can explain the math to me. >> he does say, hang on, i can't cover another 46 million people for free. that's kind of a bonus number, that 46 million but let's not go there. i think when he goes down this road not only does he repeal his promise of not raising the clinton tax rate, he also really reopens the issue that folks have known about that this is a massive budget buster and a massi
he said he wouldn't go above clinton but in effect he's going to go above the clinton tax rate level. we'll get keith involved in this in just a minute. is this one of those areas he looks defensive rather than offensive? >> yeah, and this is one of those areas he looks mathematically impaired. $30 billion a year. who believes that? congressional budget office? any outside consulting firms? the cbo refuses to go below $1 trillion not $300 billion and private groups estimated twice that....
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it was an attack by hillary clinton who said you haven't proposed universal health care. barack obama's response during the campaign was to say the problem is if you get costs down that will remove some of the problem. he's moved. he's now acknowledging that there will be some people that fall through the cracks. they just think that number will be fairly small. >> we're going to talk to you in the ensuing hour or two. do you think that president obama and his senior staff are in a compromising mood? how do you read that? there's some stringent language in the excerpts of the speech, but you're suggesting a little milder, softer tone. >> i think they're in a compromising mood, but they recognize the compromise is going to likely come between the house and the senate. i think the excerpt that i just read about not wasting time with people who want to kill the bill, i think the white house has made the judgment that they do want to kill this bill and so the compromises are mostly going to be made with the exception of snowe perhaps susan collins as well. the colleague from
it was an attack by hillary clinton who said you haven't proposed universal health care. barack obama's response during the campaign was to say the problem is if you get costs down that will remove some of the problem. he's moved. he's now acknowledging that there will be some people that fall through the cracks. they just think that number will be fairly small. >> we're going to talk to you in the ensuing hour or two. do you think that president obama and his senior staff are in a...
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. >>> at the end, we have breaking news, secretary of state hillary clinton says she quote takes responsibility for the attack on the benghazi embassy on september 11th. this comes in an interview with cnn. the secretary is in lima, peru, told cnn the white house is quote not at fault for the attack that killed ambassador chris stephens and three others. cnbc.com will have coverage throughout the evening. of course, we will have much more about this on squawkbox tomorrow. this benghazi business is one of the biggest factors in the election right now according to polling data, the administration's story, in my humble opinion, simply does not hang together. if the state department takes responsibility for that, i'm still not sure what that means. who can kokted the susan rice story? the u.n. ambassador, who went on five news stories and contrary to facts, said to everybody, it was a youtube video and a spontaneous demonstration? we know that was not true. the question is who put it into susan rice's head and who ordered her to go out and make that story, which is without any creds whatsoever? tha
. >>> at the end, we have breaking news, secretary of state hillary clinton says she quote takes responsibility for the attack on the benghazi embassy on september 11th. this comes in an interview with cnn. the secretary is in lima, peru, told cnn the white house is quote not at fault for the attack that killed ambassador chris stephens and three others. cnbc.com will have coverage throughout the evening. of course, we will have much more about this on squawkbox tomorrow. this benghazi...
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if she had that information, then hillary clinton had that information, and if hillary clinton had that information, richard williamson, president obama had that information, and that's why americans are burned up. >> well, we know that the day after the tragic events in benghazi that a senior state department official briefed some people on capitol hill, referred to it as a terrorist attack so clearly the administration, the gang that can't shoot straight, can't get its stories straight, and this lack of transparency, this lack of candor has two terrible aspects. one, it is disrespectful to the four brave americans who had served our country well, who perished in this terrorist attack, and, two, it's a failed effort to justify a war on terror through target the killings that president obama wants to claim has been successful when clearly it hasn't. >> but here's the thing. >> the al qaeda -- >> this is -- richard, i've got to get this in, rich. look, go back in time a few weeks. >> sure. >> there was a ceremony at the dover air force base, okay? a ceremony at the dover air force base.
if she had that information, then hillary clinton had that information, and if hillary clinton had that information, richard williamson, president obama had that information, and that's why americans are burned up. >> well, we know that the day after the tragic events in benghazi that a senior state department official briefed some people on capitol hill, referred to it as a terrorist attack so clearly the administration, the gang that can't shoot straight, can't get its stories straight,...
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i got my back up, your back is up, hillary clinton, what are we going to do? what is the state department, what is obama going to do? >> we're going to do what the sanctions guys did in south africa. we're going to put our values on the table too and say our values are as good as your values. our values are freedom and respecting -- >> we've got to do more than that. >> and if you can't play with that, we don't need you. >> peter novarro? >> these are economic acts of war. we've got to declare them as such. obama and clinton have got to say, we will not tolerate it, and if you keep doing it, there are going to be harsh sanctions. bottom line. >> i'll tell you, i'm a free trade guy, you're both going to come back. when we start back up, i'm going to ask quentin hardy, why is mr. steve ballmer of microsoft so wussy on this subject. it really annoyed me that clip. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. 154 are tracking shipments on a train. 33 are iming on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly chec
i got my back up, your back is up, hillary clinton, what are we going to do? what is the state department, what is obama going to do? >> we're going to do what the sanctions guys did in south africa. we're going to put our values on the table too and say our values are as good as your values. our values are freedom and respecting -- >> we've got to do more than that. >> and if you can't play with that, we don't need you. >> peter novarro? >> these are economic acts...
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growth during the clinton years. okay? it is in my opinion the one thing he has not done. he doesn't get along with congressional leaders. he doesn't get along with his own party much less republicans and i thought that was the key difference and a very weak spot. maybe clinton is saying to obama you ought to take my cue and work with these guys because we have big problems. that surely, mr. obama has not demonstrated any cooperation in this game. >> that is raising a lot of eyebrows. if clinton is your alpha surrogate, why the bridge, the gap between his policy, his world view and what he expect obama's world view? >> there are two different world views. i always believe that bill clinton was ronald reagan's third team, particularly when the congress turned republican and incidentally i often praised clinton during those years that he did a great job. mr. obama is not cut from the same cloth. clinton cut spending substantially. clinton raised taxes and then he lowered the capital gains tax and clinton had welfare re
growth during the clinton years. okay? it is in my opinion the one thing he has not done. he doesn't get along with congressional leaders. he doesn't get along with his own party much less republicans and i thought that was the key difference and a very weak spot. maybe clinton is saying to obama you ought to take my cue and work with these guys because we have big problems. that surely, mr. obama has not demonstrated any cooperation in this game. >> that is raising a lot of eyebrows. if...
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obama or any american president, democrat or republican, could be bill clinton or whoever, i would want to have solidarity with netanyahu, right now, with ahmadinejad here in the driver's seat making these crazy speeches. i would want to show solidarity, miss silverberg. >> absolutely. >> it's just not a question of showing and sending signals, we've got to actually do something. >> all right. we've got to do something. this thing is just drifting in the wrong direction. ambassador kristen silverberg, thank you very, very much. we appreciate t.jed babin, appreciate. coming up on "cud low," money managers mulling whether or not to take a time-out as stocks close in on record highs. but wait for my next guest to say the market is ready to rally even more. >>> later on, the battle for the middle class. romney finally figures it out. tax cuts, more take-home pay, more jobs. who could ask for anything else, and don't forget, as always, free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. that includes tax cuts and more take-home pay. i'm larry kudlow. we'll be right back. >>> stocks were o
obama or any american president, democrat or republican, could be bill clinton or whoever, i would want to have solidarity with netanyahu, right now, with ahmadinejad here in the driver's seat making these crazy speeches. i would want to show solidarity, miss silverberg. >> absolutely. >> it's just not a question of showing and sending signals, we've got to actually do something. >> all right. we've got to do something. this thing is just drifting in the wrong direction....
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>> bill clinton. >> bubba is hoping. barack obama won a nobel peace prize before bubba, so did al gore. >> well, if you are looking for beta, biotech might be your answer. the biotech index is up 47% just in year outperforming the s&p 500 by 30%. investors continue to seek out the group for its growth from prospekts. eric schmidt says more and more growth fund managers are taking interest in biotech where earnings are not correlated with the macro environment. ubs writes that alexion is a significant double-digit growth driver but uses the orphan drug model where pricing and reimbursement are insulated, the biotech is up a whopping 400% over the past three years. keep in mind this is a speculative takeout target. another standout stock, gilead sciences is up 70% year-to-date, ubs has it as its top large tech biotech pick, it's attractively trading to a discount to the biotech sector, biogen up 50% in the past year thanks to its strong earnings performance and anticipation riding behind its multiple sclerosis drug bg12 wh
>> bill clinton. >> bubba is hoping. barack obama won a nobel peace prize before bubba, so did al gore. >> well, if you are looking for beta, biotech might be your answer. the biotech index is up 47% just in year outperforming the s&p 500 by 30%. investors continue to seek out the group for its growth from prospekts. eric schmidt says more and more growth fund managers are taking interest in biotech where earnings are not correlated with the macro environment. ubs writes...